Just me and my adventures in life. Life is an adventure and I try to have fun. I love being out in the world.
And I am thankful that anybody who stumbles across this dribble of mine takes a moment to look at it.
Take what you want and leave the rest.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

We went to a place called The Counter in Fremont which has custom burgers. I will say this-It is a chain. I don't like to put chain restaurants in this blog unless I really like them or their concept. The Counter fits into the concept as you can choose what you want on your burger-there are over like 300,000 different ways you can build your burger. The funny thing is that everybody I was with all got pineapple with theirs:

Inside the Counter

Parmesan Fries

A burger creation

Burger in a bowl (without a bun)

A plain creation

The Counter is cool. It is a little pricey but I am looking forward to trying more combos there.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Recently, I was lucky to be spend some time at the San Francisco Public Library archives and started to look at some of the artifacts from Christopher Milk which was the producer of milk in San Francisco until they were bought out by Berkeley Farms in 1970. What was cool to me was looking at the different promotional items:

An ad for Christopher Milk

A Christopher Dairy Farm Calendar

An ad for 49ers tickets

A Christopher Milk shopping cart ad

A Christopher Dairy Farm ruler from the 50's

Some Christopher Milk cartons

Drink Christopher Milk and get free 49er tickets

Holiday Greetings

Learn first aid on a milk carton

They were a huge sponsor of the San Francisco Jr. Giants in the 60's (above and below):

And then in 1970, they were sold and became part of Berkeley Farms:

Cartoon about them being sold

It was really cool to see and learn about a huge part of Bay Area history.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

We have museum that celebrates all things Hayward. It is called the Hayward Center for History and Culture. The first floor is the Museum for things are Hayward, the second floor is the archives. One thing about Hayward is that it was really rural and it was an agricultural area with a lot of farms and ranches until the last 50 years:

The cornerstone from the original Hayward High

A look at inside of the museum

A driver's uniform in the early 1900's

An original saddle made by Henry Rowell. The leading saddle maker of the 1930's-1950's

The Western Pacific sign for the railroad

1940's police uniform

Hunt's Tomato Juice. Hunt's Cannery was a backbone of the Hayward economy of early Hayward